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The Philippine Commodities Digest is a weekly publication of New Jersey-based A & V Media, providing a comprehensive roundup of developments and trends in the country’s key farming and mining sectors.

Rene Pastor was a journalist for Reuters for 23 years, covering the commodities market since 1994 before leaving the agency in 2012. He set up the commodities coverage for Reuters in Manila, and became deputy editor in chief for commodities in Asia when he was in Singapore from 1996 to 1998. In New York, he wrote about sugar, cotton, coffee, cocoa and orange juice. He chronicled the market-moving impact on commodity markets of the 9/11 attacks and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Jack Scoville is vice president of The Price Futures Group in Chicago. He is a market analyst specializing in rice, grains, softs, oil seeds. He has more than 30 years of experience and spent 10 years working on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade.

Aaron Cook is a consultant meteorologist with MetraWeather, the international commercial arm of the Meteorological Service of New Zealand. He specializes in weather forecasts for the energy and commodities sectors in Asia and Australasia, identifying and analyzing market-moving weather and climate events occurring from a few hours to several months into the future.